Morgan Spurlock Quotes

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

I always want people to experience the feelings I am experiencing. Anything I can do to get you to feel, that's an honor and a duty that I take very seriously.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.